More Barmy Stuff From Jezza!

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-35330331
How do you define a "living wage" for a start? Assuming a company is within the law they are already paying at least minimum wage. When will lefties learn where the wealth for their crackpot schemes comes from?

[EDDIE51]

''How do you define a living wage?''
There is no need to, it has already been defined, from the 16th April the 'Living wage' becomes law becomes law.
https://www.livingwage.gov.uk/?gclid=CPuwm7P8rsoCFcF82wodB-gAZg

[EDDIE51]

It will be illegal to pay below the 'living wage' in just 11 weeks from now!
A lot of people will be due a wage rise very soon !

[mikey4444]

You are correct Eddie but not if you below the age of 25, a peculiarity that Osborne never explained. So it would seem that "living wage" means different to different people.

[EDDIE51]

^^ yes Mikey but everyone will reach 25 sooner or later.I suppose we will see those over 25 being pushed out to employ school leavers come April!
Too late for me, I get my state pension on 23rd January. Got the confirmation last week.

[ummmm]

I think the 25 age rules are awful. I had a job and two children when I was 25.

[mikey4444]

It won't be long for me as well Eddie, but I pity the young, the very old, the sick and the disadvantaged, under this current nasty and vindictive Tory regime. They will get left behind, just as they always do under the Tories.

A quote from my Avatar, who must be revolving in his grave at what is being done to his beloved NHS ::::


"The Tories are like rats you know....you think you have got rid of them, but they always come back !"

[EDDIE51]

ummmm, you can't even leave school until end of the summer term after you reach 18 now.( I left at 16.) If you go on to college /Uni you would not be likely to start full time work until you are over 22.

[ummmm]

Eddie - I know, my son is doing his A Levels. I left at 16 too. I thought they could leave if they'd secured an apprenticeship or job.

[Togo]

//"The Tories are like rats you know....you think you have got rid of them, but they always come back !" //

Do you have a link to that quote mikey? Or the time and place it was said. Except of course by you.

[EDDIE51]

Ummm yes you can leave at 16, if it is to go to a recognised apprenticeship or 'in work' training. But in both those cases there is a fixed wage which is lower even than the national minimum wage, and your parents can continue to receive family allowance and family tax credit for you until the day before your 19th birthday.

[Mamyalynne]

July '48

he said

//"So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin" //


http://www.theguardian.com/news/1948/jul/05/leadersandreply.mainsection

[Togo]

//"So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin" //

//"The Tories are like rats you know....you think you have got rid of them, but they always come back !" //

No cigar mamy. Different quotes.

[Mamyalynne]

True.

[ToraToraTora]

mikey, mikey me old china, minimum wage! the classic moving target, It's all relative. protectionism is only ever temporary, market forces dear boy.

[mikey4444]

Market forces dear boy ?

Why do Market Forces always make the rich richer and the poor poorer ?

[EDDIE51]

TTT, To answer your original question , how do you define a ''living Wage'' ?The 'Living Wage ' ( £7.85 an hour I think) will be MANDATORY for all workers over 25, from April 16th 2016 ! It has already been defined and it will be law in just 12 weeks time.!

[EDDIE51]

^^^ What's more 'Jezza' had nothing to do with it ! It was Cameron's lot!

[mikey4444]

Eddie....

look at my post of 17:40 and you will see that without the Labour landslide of 1997, nothing of the sort that will occur in the next few weeks could have happened.

[ToraToraTora]

is that the minimum wage eddie?

"Why do Market Forces always make the rich richer and the poor poorer" - they don't, the basic issue is that no matter how you fix it, some people always do better than others. Did your school ever to the bag of sugar experiment?

[Togo]

And after introducing what the Blairites called a minimum wage for British workers, proceeded to rub their noses in it and allow millions of immigrants into Britain who would work for half that. Whilst of course providing them with social housing and health care whilst strangling the British born a chance of a future. Now it is all a machiavellian fascist plot dreamt up by the wicked Tories. The unions of course were very vocal in their disagreement. Not. Did I miss your reply to my request for a valid link to your oft quoted little missive mikey ?